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[WITCHCRAFT]. Factum, pour maistre Urbain Grandier, prestre curé de leglise S. Pierre du Marché de Loudun, & lun des chanoines en leglise Saincte Croix dudit lieu.
[ca. 1634].
With:
(2) [WITCHCRAFT]. Remarques & considerations servans a la justification du curé de Loudun, autres que celles contenuës en son factum.
[ca. 1634].
2 works in 1 volume. 4to (ca. 18.5 x 24 cm). Modern marbled boards. 12; 8 pp. Full description

[WITSEN GEYSBEEK, Peter Gerardus]. Reizen naar vreemde landen, in het hoekje van den haard.
Amsterdam, Diederichs brothers, [1829]. 16mo in 8s. With 12 double-page aquatint views by W.H. Hoogkamer, 6 in grey tint and 6 in sepia. Original publisher's printed yellow paper covered boards. 115, [1 blank] pp. Full description

WRIGHT, William. A grammar of the Arabic language, translated from the German of Caspari, and edited, with numerous additions and corrections, ... vol. I[-II].
London, Edinburgh, Williams and Norgate (back of title-page: printed by Friedrich Nies (Karl Berend Lorck), Leipzig), 1859. 8vo. Set in roman, italic and Arabic type. Contemporary half mottled, tanned sheepskin. XVI, 257, [1 blank]; VI, [1], [1 blank], XVI, 327, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[YEARBOOK]. Naamwijzer, aantoonende alle de naamen en woonplaatsen van de edele achtbare magistraat der stad Middelburg in Zeeland ... Dienende van Novemb[er] 1792 tot Novemb[er] 1793.
Middelburg, Hermanus Snel, [1792].
With: (2) DAM, Dirk Jansz van. Middelburgsche wagt-almanach, na de nieuwe stijl. Op het jaar ... MDCCXCIII.
Middelburg, Hermanus Snel, [1792]. 2 works in 1 volume. 12mo. With the woodcut coat of arms of Middelburg on the title page of each work. Contemporary green vellum wrappers in envelope style, with the manuscript year 1793 on the front. 129, [19]; [20] pp. Full description

[YEARBOOK]. Middelburgsche naamwijzer voor het jaar 1831.
Including: (2) [ALMANAC]. Middelburgsche almanak, naar den nieuwen stijl, op het jaar onzes heeren Jezus Christus 1831.
Middelburg, De erven J. C. Altorffer, [1830].
With: (3) [YEARBOOK]. Middelburgsche naamwijzer voor het jaar 1832.
Including:
(4) [ALMANAC]. Middelburgsche almanak, naar den nieuwen stijl, op het schrikkel-jaar onzes heeren Jezus Christus 1832.
(5) [CONVERSION TABLES]. De specie-tafelen van rijksdaalders, dukatons, acht-en-twintigen, kwart guldens, vijf-franken en Fransche kroonen.
Middelburg, De erven J. C. Altorffer, [1831]. 2 works in 2 volumes, the first in 2 parts and the second in 3 parts. 12mo. Contemporary marbled board, with the manuscript year of publication on the spine. 120, [4], [24]; 119, [5], [24], 24 pp. Full description

YPEY, Nicolaas. Grondbeginzelen der kegelsneeden, bevattende de eerste en voornaamste eigenschappen van de parabola, ellips en hyperbola. Ten dienste der leerlingen opgesteld.
Amsterdam, Yntema and Tieboel, 1769. 8vo. With 7 engraved folding plates, head- and tailpieces built up from cast typographic ornaments. Contemporary half calf, sprinkled-paper sides. XXVIII, 68 pp. Full description

ZEHENTNER, Paul. Promontorium malae spei: impiis periculose navigantibus propositium. Sive, signum & nota reprobationis: procrastinatio poenitentiae, scripta cautelae hominum, emendatione[m] vita[e] cunctantium, spe aliquando resipiscendi.
Graz, [heirs of Georg] Widmanstetter for Sebastian Haupt, 1643. Large 4to (25.5 x 19 cm). With an engraved allegorical frontispiece and a richly designed armorial and emblematic dedication plate, both by David Tscherning. Contemporary, richly gold-tooled black morocco, each board in a panel design of rolls and stamps with a large built-up centrepiece in a double frame of multiple decorative rolls (the diagonals connecting the inner and outer frames possibly intended to give the effect of a three-dimensional niche), and the spine treated as a single field with built-up decorations in a frame of multiple rolls, gold fillets on turn-ins, the whole with hundreds of impressions of dozens of stamps and rolls, gilt edges, traces of 2 pair of ties. [36], 752, [10] pp. including engraved frontispiece but not dedication plate. Full description

ZINNER, Ernst. Deutsche und Niederländische astronomische Instrumente des 11.-18. Jahrhunderts.
München, C.H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1956. With 80 numbered plates. Half cloth. X, 678, [2] pp. Full description

[ZINZENDORF, Nikolaus Ludwig Graf von]. Sammlung Einiger von dem Ordinario Fratrum während seines Aufenthalts in den Teutschen Gemeinen von Anno 1755 bis 1757 gehaltenen Kinder-Reden.
Barby, Seminario Theologico, 1758. 8vo. With ornamental woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorated initials. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled marbled calf, red edges. [8], 454, [20] pp. Full description

SACHS, Julius. Geschichte der Botanik vom 16. Jahrhundert bis 1860.
München, R. Oldenbourg, 1875. 8vo. Contemporary half cloth, marbled sides, gold-tooled title on spine. "xii" [= viii], 612 pp. Full description